Today most people are using Google to search on the Internet, but still some people would like to use AltaVista as their preferred search engine. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., AltaVista has a rich history of innovation embodied in 61 search-related patents.
According to AltaVista, they are the first-ever multi-lingual search capability on the Internet and the first search technology to support Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. "We are proud of Babel Fish, the Web's first Internet machine translation service that can translate words, phrases or entire Web sites to and from English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Russian."
In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc. In October 2003, Overture itself was taken over by Yahoo!. In Aug. 2004, shortly after Yahoo!’s acquisition, the AltaVista site started using the Yahoo! Search technology. [Source: Wikipedia-AltaVista]
They also provide easy-to-use js codes for webmasters to add translation capability on their own websites.
To take Babel Fish embedded codes, click here.
To try Babel Fish, click on the picture below.
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